Fih Pro League: Disappointing Day for Indian Men & Women

It was a disappointing day for Indian hockey with bot the men and women droping points in their respective fih pro league games at the kalinga stadium here on tuesday.

Resuming after a day’s break, the Indian women went down 3-4 to spain having lost in shootout in their previous game while the men, playout some of its mains, mainly, barely put on in theirs 1-4 loss to germany.

The women paid the price for being erratic and wayward despite starting well Debutants Sakshi Rana and Jyoti Singh impressed in Patches, The Former Scoring Her Maiden International Goal, But Barring The Third Quarter when the Indians Appeared To Proactivly Seek Purity, The team silently more On Its opponent’s mistakes to find the target.

India Had to Wait Till the 19th minute for the opener, Baljeet kaur perfectly positioned in front of the goal to defect deepika’s pass in. Two Minutes Later, The Ball Traversed The Circle from Right to Left of the Indian Circle Before Sofia Rogoski Found the Net Through the Smallest of Gaps Between Savita Savita PUNILA PUNIS PUNILES PUNELDERS and The Post.

The lead kept changing hands, India capitalising on goalmouth melees, till 3-3 before lucia jimenez took a quick free from free Hit from just outside the circle in the circle in the step Powerful Smash that left the entry home team’s defense and the goalkeeper rooted.

The men, however, was less than impressive in their first competitive outing against the geermany since the bilateral series in October.

Harmanpreet Singh, Hardik Singh and Sumit Walmiki was all out with injuries and India had its definition all over the place. The Germans Simply Outplayed The Host. Five wasted pcs did not help the cause of the Indians. The only Worthwhile Move by the Indian Forwards Came in the 13th minute and resulted in the team’s lone goal when rajinder singh wove past three defenders, passed abhishek naink naink nain who sat it to go to go to go

The Spanish men Suffered a 1-0 defend in shootouts to england after the teams were tied 2-2 in regulation time.

The results: women: Spain 4 (Sofia Rogoski 21, Estel Petchame 25, 49, Lucia Jimenez 52) Bt India 3 (Baljet Kaur 19, Sakshi Rana 38, Rutuja Pisal 45).

Men: England 2 (Jacob Payton 13, Sam Ward 32) Drew with Spain 2 (Nicolas Alvarez 49, Bruno Font 53). England won 1-0 in shootout; Germany 4 (Florian Sperling 7, Thies Prinz 14, Michel Struthoff 48, Raphael Hartkopf 55) Bt India 1 (Gurjant Singh 13).